Scoop-board.



No.' 845,480'. PATENTBD PEB. 26; 190,7.

W. T. RONEY.

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WILLIAM T. RONEY, OF BETHANY, ILLINOIS.

SCOOP-BOARD.

` Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed April 18. 1906. Serial No. 312.464.

T0 all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. HONEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bethany, in the county of Moultrie, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scoop-Boards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art t0 which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to scoop-boards, the name being applied to end-gates for wagons of such construction that the device may be utilized to permit dumping of the contents of the wagon to which it is applied, and which may be also utilized as a scoop in connection with the wagonbed for loading the same. To this end I provide a scoop-board which may be moved into and out of operative position and upon which is hinged or otherwise mounted for swinging movement a trap-door, the said trap-door being swung to an open position when it is desired to dump the con tents of the wagon.

The invention furthermore resides in the provision of a means for holding the scoopboard in inoperative position, the said means being of such construction that it will sup port the board when the same is in operative position.

A still further obj ect of the invention is to provide an extremely simple but novel and efficient means for holding the above-mentioed means against accidental disengagement.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a wagon, showing one of my scoop-boards applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, the said board being shown in inoperative position. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the board in its lowered or operative position. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken longitudinally of the wagon and through the said board and showing the trap-door open for unloading, and Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view in detail on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1 and looking downwardly. f

The numerals 10 and 11 denote, respectively, the sides and floor of a wagon-bed, which are of the ordinary construction with the exception of the floor, which is provided at its extreme rear end and upon its under side with a cleat 12, to the rear longitudinal edge of which is secured a cleat 13, which has its end portions extending slightly beyond the sides 10 of the wagon for'a purpose to be hereinafter fully described.

The scoopboard embodied in my invention comprises a frame including stiles 14 and a connecting-rail 15, which is secured at its ends to the upper ends of the stiles 14, the connection being braced by means of a bracebar 16, which is secured in any suitable manner to the said connecting-rail 15 and the stiles 14. In order to complete the. scoopboard proper of the invention, a trap-door 17 is hinged in the frame above described by means of a rod 18, which is engaged through an opening formed longitudinally through a cleat 19, which is secured to the outer face of the trap-door 17 adjacent its upper edge and at its ends through openings formed in the blocks 20, which are secured at kcorresponding points upon the stiles 14 of the frame and which are reinforced by means of brackets 21, the brackets being secured to the side edges of the stile of the frame and having right-angularly-extending portions which are secured to the said blocks 20. One end of the rod 18 is bentto form an eye 22, which bears against one of the brackets 21. and the opposite end of the rod is screwthreaded for the engagement therewith of a :nut 23, which bears against the other of said brackets.

In crder that the trap-door 17 may be securely held in closed position and yet be readily opened when desired, I provide a latch-bar 24, which is pivoted at one side of its middle to the door 17 andhas its ends extending beyond the sides 'of the said trapdoor. Secured at corresponding points upon the stiles 14 of the frame are keepers 25, which have portions 26 lying in spaced parallel relation to the said stiles and extending in opposite directions, the said keepers being designed lto receive the said ends of the bar between their portions 26 and the opposing faces of the corresponding stiles of the frame. Pivotally mounted, as at 27 upon the rear face of the door 17, as at 27, is a detent 28, which normally rests with its lower end against the upper edge of the bar 24, the said lower end of the detent being beveled to positively engage the said latch-bar.

Secured to the forward edge of each of the stiles 14 of the frame and extending forwardly therefrom are boards 29, which when the scoop-board is in raised position lie against the adiacent sides 10 of the wagon-body and have their rear edges inclined upwardly, as at 30, so that when the scoop-board is in IOO IIO

lowered position the said boards 29 Jform the side of the scoop, and by reason of the inclination ofthe rear edges of the said board the boards are higher at their ends adjacent the wagon-body than at their outer ends. At their lower ends the b oards 29 extend slightly below the floor of the wagon-body, and the lower edge of the stiles 14 of the frame and the trap-door 17 rest upon the upper edge of the cleat 13, the scoop-board being thus mounted for vertical swinging movement.

In order that the scoop-board may be securely held in its raised position and also in order that it may be held in its proper lowered position, I provide rods 31, which are bent upon themselves at their middle to form eye members 32 and have their ends secured to the corresponding sides `10 of the wagon-body adjacent the rear end thereof and with their eye members 32 lying beyond the said rear end of the wagon-body. In order to reinforce the connection of the rods 31 with the sides of the wagon-body, one of the arms is bent downwardly, as at 33, before being secured to the Said side of the wagon-body. Engaged with the eyes 32 are the inner ends of rods 34, which extend through openings 35, formed through the stile of the frame, and have their outer ends bent to form eyes 36, which when the scoopboard is in lowered position bear against wear-plates 37, which are secured to the rear face of the said stiles and are provided with openings registering with the openings through the stiles.

In order tol-*hold the rods 34 in position to maintain the scoop-board in its raised position, I provide keepers for the said rods comprising each an attaching-plate 38, which is secured in any suitable manner to blocks 39, carried by the stiles 14 of the scoop-board frame and to the stiles themselves and have portions extending upwardlyT from their opposing ends, and thence bent in opposite directions from each other, as at 40, with the eXtreme ends bent inwardly toward the attaching portions of the said plates.

In order to hold the rods in engagement with their keepers, I extend the outer side of each of the portions 26 ofthe keepers 25 to a point beyond the vertical plane occupied by the inturned extreme end of 'the keepers 39 and curve the said portions outwardly and rearwardly from the said portions 26 of the keepers. It will be seen that the rods 36 in order to engage their keepers must overlie the keepers 25, and the curved extensions upon said keepers tend to cause the rods to engage their keepers and when engaged to hold them in position. It will be noted in Fig. 2 that the point of connection of the rods with the eye members is in a di'erent plane to that occupied by the keepers 25 and 39 and that hence the rods will be slightly bent when engaged with their keepers and a certain amount of resilient force exerted by the rods themselves to hold them in engagement with their keepers.

It will of course be understood that the contents of the wagon may be dumped by opening the trap-door 17 and that when it is desired to load the wagon with grain or the like the rods 34 are disengaged from their keepers, and the entire scoop-board swings downwardly and is supported by the eye ends ofthe rods.

It is to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the eXact details of construction shown and described, for obvious modilications will occur to those skilled in the art.

What is claimed is` 1. The combination with a wagon-body, of a scoop-board mounted for swinging movement upon the body, rods pivotally connected with the body and arranged at times to hold the scoop-board in its raised position and at times to support the same in its lowered position, keepers for the rods, a trapdoormounted in said scoop-board, a latchbar carried by the trap-door, keepers for said latch-bar, and means carried by the lastnamed keepers for preventing disengagement of the rods from the iirst-named keepers.

`2. The combination'with a wagon-body, of a scoop-board mounted for swinging movement upon the body, rods pivotally connected with the body and arranged at times to hold the scoop-board in its raised posion, and at times to support the same in its lowered position, keepers for the rods, a ltrapdoor mounted in said scoop-board, a latchbar carried by the trap-door, keepers for said latch-bar, and means carried by the lastnamed keepers for exerting a tension upon said lrods when the same are engaged with the iirst-named keepers.

In testimony whereof I alix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VILLIAM T, RONEY.

Vitnesses:

ALF RHODES, J. A. MITCHELL.

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